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28 Days From Nirvana By George Kayer My condition is so rare, on the North American continent less than 3,400 people are stricken by it. The population of this continent: home to Canada, Mexico and the U.S.A. is estimated at half a billion people . Through government reports, we know it's found in only 36 areas in the United States. The mortality rate is 40% to 93% depending on a state's resources and its government's willingness to aggressively combat this rare condition. Rega...

--"A PERSON CANNOT BECOME WHO THEY NEED TO BE BY REMAINING WHO THEY ARE!!" By Wesley I. Purkey, Federal Death Row. My great Aunt Ga-ga who adopted me when I was kid, who didn't weigh a buckfiVe soak and wet, inundated me with an assemblage of words of wisdom, which has left an indelibte imprint on me. These "golden sayings" were generally flaunted when she was trying to school me on the importance of obtaining and continuing my education, and the need for learning fro...

A VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM by Burl N. Corbett The legal profession loves to quote the hoary aphorism "We are a nation of laws" to wheedle the rest of us into sanctioning their self—appointed role as our protector. The platitude's bitter truth, however, soon becomes apparent to those accused of a crime when he or she finds themself charged with not only the primary offense, but a slumgullion of barely applicable sister charges, an obnoxious practice of flinging every conceivable all...

AFWA Essay Submission All I Have Pay attention. Parents and teachers say those words over and over, and it is so easy not to understand what they mean; to be annoyed by then; to reject them. They are, unfortunately, two of the most important words that you will ever hear when you are young, if not the most important. They do not mean ,iobeyn. If whoever says them includes that in their tone, then thay also misunderstand what it means to pay attention. And they suffer for it. Knowing that, rat...

B€lI1g Of Light ':+} by J .D. Frandsen Meditation and transcendence inside Administrative Segregation “The world of every day life cannot ever be taken as something personal that has power over us, something that could make us, or destroy us, because man ’s battlefield is not in his strife with the world around him. His battleﬁeld is over the horizon, in an area which is unthinkable for an average man, the area where man ceases to be a man. ”- Juan Matus. The cell door slams, gloved hand...

Breaking the Cycle By Ryan M. Moser Originally published in the Spring 2016 Beacon Re-Entry Newsletter Florida's high recidivism creates a costly burden on taxpayers and is overwhelming the criminal justice system at an unprecedented rate. Statistics vary, but out of the 100,000 men and women incarcerated in the Florida Department of Corrections, approximately 75% will come back as a re- offender in their lifetime. Ofﬁcial records show that 35% of inmates released will return to prison w...

FIRST AMENDMENT UNDER ATTACK IN ILLINOIS’ PRISONS: THE PRICE OF DISSENT Exercising one's first amendment rights is analogous to breathing; we only learn to appreciate it when our capacity to I do either is impinged upon. However, there are certain events which serve to heighten an individual's awareness to particular circumstances, and for those of us who are incarcerated, we quickly discover how tenuous our ability is to engage in first amendment activities that the average person ...

FRACTURED, BUT NOT BROKEN It is quite difficult to maintain a relationship with family and friends while a loved one is in prison. The longer the sentence, the greater the challenge and complexity it is to be a part of each other’s lives. I have been incarcerated since the tender youthful age of 17- years old. In less than a half a year I will be 40-years old with the soul of a man and mental scares twice my age. Over the many years I learned what it means to “be family” and to “have family.”...

IN THE DEAD ZONE I am confined in a stifling cell measuring 7-J X feet; hewn completely of rock, an aperture in the smooth unfinished stone is where I sleep. A thin and greasy, sweat-stained pallet serves as my mattress. The heart and mind constitute my only means of travel. I was born and raised in a blighted area of Los Angeles known as Boyle Heights. The squalid flat I called home was in a crime infested area nestled in the heart of the barrio slums of East Los Angeles. As small children, ...

One in the Same I am a black male, born and raised in a small town within the State of Mississippi, to which I moved to the State of Missouri to live and call home. .I might be a bit naive in my understanding of racism and prejudice attitudes of people, in the State of Missouri, the State of Mississippi and the entire world for that matter. But what I do not understand is the reason and purpose in the cause of these two, wherefore, most all things done by people throughout the world are based...

Prison Waits are not a Barrier Separating Prisoners From Protections of the Constitution. Br . l!1»'esley'l. Purkey I Federal Death Row “As Long as the World Snail Last There will be Wrongs, and if no itlian Rebeiled, Those Wrongs Would Last Forever.” I Clarence Darrow - American Trial Lawyer - 1930 . The most precious Constitutional Right a prisoner has is his or her right of access to the Courts. Without it, all other Constitutional Rights are illusory. Without distinction to non-...

Written by Jimmy Pesci # 990495 Florida Civil Commitment Center 13619 S.E. Hwy 70 Arcaida,.F|. 34266 THE MICHAEL MUNION SUICIDE COVER-UP At the Florida Civil Commitment Center On June 15, 2012, Michael James Munion was already a resident for eight years at the Florida Civil Commitment Center after being committed as a so-called sexually violent predator after completing his prison sentence. He wasn't the most popular resident to many ofthe clinical and security staff (GEO) and spent many...

The Inmate and the Prison Guard or The Night the Walls Came Down I had known this particular Correctional Ofﬁcer for close to 25 years. The conversation we struck up the evening after the 2008 Presidential Election had us idly looking at each other’s perspectives as African Americans, mine as an inmate on Death Row and his as a prison guard. On any other occasional evening, this particular guard might stop to say hello just to pay a visit to the many years we had known each other. But on this...

Robert Morales P-27996 2660 wds. Cell# 5309 California Men's Colony PO. Box 8101 San Luis Obispo, CA 93409 The New Death Penalty By: Robert S. Morales The old woman shuffles along, her step faltering as she walks bent and unaided, eyes fearful and dimmed by the ninety- two summers she had witnessed since her birth in 1908. The powerful men in uniform intimated her. Their weaponized presence along with the wicked razor wire and guntowers, lent a menacing air to this alien and oppressive e...

3 xi nao3 xi3= to wash +’nao3 = brain Word root derived from the Chinese [Mandarin] English deﬁnition of Brainwashing: 1. Intensive, usu. political indoctrination aimed at changing a person's basic convictions and attitudes and replacing them with a fixed and unquestionable set of beliefs. 2. Indoctrination or persuasion by advertising or salesmanship. THE PERSAUSIVE FCCC BRAINWASHING EQUATION A Different Type of Treatment Presented By jimmy Pesci This is a non-fiction account of a nativ...

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT OF LIFE IN A FEDERAL PRISON The stress of being in prison hits you every waking minute and hour that you are conscious, and may even affect you while you sleep. From the time of your arrest, which may occur in front of families and/or friends, then taken to the local jail where you will be held until your trial, then the humilation that you go through while being paraded in front of the public while you are dressed in the ever famous bright orange jump suits, along wi...

George Peter, Jr. Reg. No. C-01434 Western lllinois Corr. Center 2500 Rt. 99 South Mt. Sterling, IL 62353 The Radicalization Of An American Prisoner During a recent hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee, high—ranking F.B.I. officials testified that the Bureau considered prisons to be “fertile ground for extremists”, “threat assessments“ and that they were in the process of developing for those individuals who may have become “radicalized” during their incarceration. Listening to th...

~Your Mother is a Sex Offender ~ By Dale Malesh We hold these truths to be se1f—evident. .. 0 A woman’s place is in the home. 0 Blacks aren’t intelligent to be Doctors, Lawyers or legislators. 0 All Irishman are drunks. 0 All Southerners are inbred. Not very many years ago, everyone knew these things to be true. The same kind of experts who told us that, the Earth is ﬂat, and that the sun revolves around it. That only a Witch could survive being held underwater, or that Jews should wear the S...